High Country
88 miles
Essex, directly north east of London, borders Suffolk, Hertfordshire, Kent and Cambridgeshire. A real mixture of a county; 350 miles of coastline – the longest of any county in England, farmland, estuaries and pretty medieval towns and villages provide Essex with a variety of countryside – all within close proximity of London.
County overviewArgyll & Bute spans from the Scottish mainland across a number of islands to the west, each with their own character. The area is synonymous with the Argyll pattern, which derived from the tartan of the Clan Campbell.
County overview